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It offers a chat interface that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mike-open-source-legal-ai-oc03yuzlr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Oc03YuZlR.png og:image:alt: Mike — open-source legal AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Mike — open-source legal AI **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Mike is an open-source legal AI assistant designed as a self-hostable alternative to commercial tools like Harvey and Legora. It offers a chat interface that reads documents, cites verbatim, runs multi-step workflows, and drafts and edits contracts end-to-end. 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